New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 3, 1915, Page 11

" WAR PREPAREDNESS _ ADVOCATEDBY TAFT Wants Navy Tonnage Increased and Stronger Delenses for Coast San Francisco, Cal, Sept. 3.—Wil- liam H. Taft advocated preparedness for ‘war yesterday, illustrated its necessity and detailed the means to that end, in an address delivered at “Taft Day” exercises at the Panama- Facific exposition. In the ceremonies preceding the address Mr. Taft, who while president of the United States broke ground for the exposition four years ago, again took in hand the silver spade he used then and planted a California wood tree in “Taft Circle.” He reviewed portions of the United States coast artillery of the Presidio of San Francisco and later he ad- dressed the members of the Busines Men’s Training camp at the exposi- tion, where they made their first pub- lic appearance in company formation. Given Loving Cup. A silver loving cup, inscribed Grateful Remembrance of his un- failing friendship and the fulfillment of his confidence that San Francisco red- | “In | knows how,” was presented to him by exposition officials. The acquiencence of Germany in the United States’ contention for the rights of non-combatant c ns on commercial liners of belligerents ‘“should be the cause of profound re- joicing by every patriotic American and the occasion for congratulation to the president,” said Mr. & ‘It must relieve the strain between the two countries. The shadow of a serious breach passes,” Mr. Taft con- tinued. Reasonable Preparation. “It sould not, however, lead our people away from their duty of rea- sonable preparation. The incident, though closed, as we all hope, except as to the indemnity for the lives of those already drowned, shows how near, as neutrals, we are to the war. It shows that we insist upon our rights as much as that ve ought to be reasonably prepared o defend against .their invasion by any belligerent powers.” After outlining the naval and mili- tia preparations which he consid- ered necessary for this country to make, Mr. Taft estimated what the preparations would cost, indicated how the money might be raised and made a plea for exclusion of pol- itics from the question of prepared- ness and for the employment of ex pert advice. For Big Increase in Navy, In' summing up what he regarded as necessary preparations he said: “First, an increase of our navy ton- | tters, | Tatiana. must be careful to | -otana nage as rapidly as possible by thirty Czarina of The most activ for the Russian Red Cross soc are the czarina and her two beautiful daugh- the Grand Dutchess Olga and Grand .Duchess Olga . is shown on the left. All three have Russia Daughters Care for Wounded 3 L2F X LI RXKTIITD YO Exxarr W XK RS 3P T - Ve ) WO OBITOTL LAST CALL! 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Increase Coast Defenses, “In addition an increase of 10,000 trained coast artillerymen and 600 officers to man the coast defenses properly. “Third, an increase in our regular mobile army of 50,000 troops and a quadrupling of the supply of educated military officers, We should also adopt a reduced term of enlistment with inducement to the formation of a reserve of trained me.” He then pointed out, however, that the treasury of the United States is not in a conditian to warrant such expenditures. “The program I have proposed,” he said, “modest as it is, will c ainly increase the annual total of the army and navy appropriations by perhaps $150,000,000 for each of three years and probably more “This leaves $325,000,000 at of necesary incame to be provided for by new legislation of congress over and‘ above What existing law least would probably produce. This would be partly made up by the renewal of the war tax and of the sugar tax yielding say $125,000,000. * There would be left from $150,000,000 ta $200,000,000 of a deficit still to be | providea for either by cutting down expenses or by additional taxation. Kxpenses Could Be Cut Down. Mr. Taft suggested that expenses could be cut down by giving authority and responsibility to one body of men to consider the whole field of gov- ernment income and expenditure. A large sum, he said would under any circumstances have to be raised by taxation. As a republican, he said, he believed that a change of policy to a higher protective tariff would serve most satisfactorily, but that he would not urge it because “I am trying to make practicable sugges- tions and not a partisan speech, and I am looking to what may reasonably be demanded of a patriotic democratic congress in view of the present im- perative need of increasing our na- tlonal income and their anti-protec- tion views. “The imposition of a small tax on small incomes asks a sacrifice from our patriotic citizens that they will be willing to make if our politicians have the courage to impose it and ain the imperative necessity. ‘"T"he payment of a tax, however small, makes a man a better citizen. To assume that the plain people are unwilling to pay increased taxes in case of national need is to distrust them and to ascribe to them the low- est motive for political action. “Let us cxclude politics from the question of preparedness. Let us ac- cept the cost. .Let us insist that con- gress and the administration mani- fest the courage to incur the odium af unthinking and unpatriotic men who would resent contributing to such a cause. Let us insist that the con- gress and the administration shall de- fer to the judgment of real expert naval and army officers and boards as to how we should prepare and shall not allow the dangerous little knowledge of committee chairmen and civilian politicians, ignorant of our needs to obstruct the work of preparational defense.” LAUGH GIVES GIRL AWAY. “Tootsie” Stevens, in Boy’s Garb, Ar- rested in Pennsylvania, Pa., Sept. 3.—If Viola Stevens, the fifteen-year-old girl who, ran away from her home in Brooklyn last Wednesday with youthful Max Goodwin had not laughed over her shoulder at Chief of Police Rhrib. she and her fellow adventurer might still be making their way toward Ariz- ona, where Max, with sixteen years of life behind him, intended to forget all about Brooklyn until he had his for- tune and married Viola. 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